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Vermeer's wager : speculations on art history, theory and art museums / Ivan Gaskell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaskell, Ivan.
- Series:
- Essays in art and culture.
- Essays in art and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675. Wager.
- Vermeer, Johannes.
- Art appreciation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, Ivan Gaskell explores what it might mean to know and use a work of art. He arg
- Contents:
- Vermeer's Wager Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Problems; 2 Images; 3 Objects; 4 Copies; 5 Etchings; 6 Photographs; 7 Commodities; 8 Donors; 9 Therapeutics; 10 Subjects; References; Photographic Acknowledgements
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-269).
- ISBN:
- 1-282-79609-7
- 9786612796098
- 1-86189-743-X
- OCLC:
- 671654967
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